Re: Decimal separator

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sina.sharif.ac.ir)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2000 - 10:36:18 EDT

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On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Bob Hallissy wrote:

> and I would expect use of U+060C as a decimal separator to
> cause surprises with the bidi layout code.

It will.

> Why not encode documents with U+066B for the decimal separator,
> and then develop fonts that have the culturally correct glyph
> in that spot?

This is the right thing to do.

--roozbeh

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